Local Community Emergency Relief Act of 2020
Latest action · May 21, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 21, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Local Community Emergency Relief Act of 2020
This bill waives cost share requirements for all federal emergency declarations and major disaster declarations during 2020.
Specifically, the bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide a 100% cost share in such instances. In general, FEMA disaster assistance requires a 75% cost-share commitment from the federal government with 25% provided from nonfederal sources.
The bill lists activities for which the federal cost share is waived, including
- miscellaneous costs, such as the costs of cleaning and sanitizing public areas and buildings where individuals who have contracted COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) have been present to prevent the spread of the virus;
- other needs assistance for uninsured, disaster-related necessary expenses and serious needs, including specified child care assistance and funeral and burial assistance;
- mental health services;
- medical equipment; and
- hospital and morgue capacity expansion projects to meet actual or projected COVID-19 surge demands.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 21, 2020 to Aug 4, 2020, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-LA | Bill Cassidy | Original | May 21, 2020 |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Original | May 21, 2020 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | May 21, 2020 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Jul 20, 2020 | |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Jul 30, 2020 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Aug 4, 2020 | |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Aug 4, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 21, 2020Introduced in Senate
- May 21, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Cemeteries and funerals
- Child care and development
- Community life and organization
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Mental health
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 21, 2020Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
